Shinedown's Genre:

Post-Grunge, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Nü Metal

Biography

Melodic hard rockers Shinedown hail from Jacksonville, Florida and originally featured vocalist Brent Smith, guitarist Jasin Todd, bassist Brad Stewart, and drummer Barry Kerch. Snapped up by Atlantic Records during the early-2000s flurry of post-Creed and Nickelback signings, the group released its debut album, Leave a Whisper, in 2003. Whisper ended up doing quite well for the band (eventually going platinum), aided by its single, "Fly from the Inside." Shinedown also supported it with a heroic slate of live shows, remaining on tour for most of 2004. The following year the band issued a live album documenting those shows, then returned in October 2005 with its sophomore effort, Us and Them, which went gold. The band underwent a few lineup changes in the years to follow, re-emerging in 2008 as a quintet that included Smith and Kerch along with guitarists Nick Perri and Zach Myers and bass player Eric Bass. The long-awaited Sound of Madness, featuring Grammy-winning producer Rob Cavallo (Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day), arrived in July. In 2009, the band parted ways with Nick Perri and continued on as a quartet. Fitting with its driving sound, the band loaned some of its songs to the WWE to use during their pay-per-view events, as well as a number of other soundtracks, all the while touring for Sound of Madness. All this touring eventually led to a CD/DVD set, 2011's Somewhere in the Stratosphere, which featured a pair of complete live sets from their Carnival of Madness and Anything & Everything tours. Preceded by the emotionally charged first single "Bully," the band's fourth studio album, Amaryllis, was released in the spring of 2012. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia

AOL Radio Stations Shinedown is Featured on (10)

Slacker has teamed with a multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated rock star to countdown the 55 greatest rock songs of the century. Chris Daughtry is your host as we take a look at the best rock from Y2K through today, featuring monster hits from true rockers like A Perfect Circle, System Of A Down, Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Sour, Shinedown, Halestorm, and more.

Fitz Madrid is your host for Rock Hits. It’s the best of the catalogue from Metallica, System of a Down and Nirvana with a little classic rock for spice. You'll also hear new music from bands like Shinedown, Nickelback, Breaking Benjamin and many more.

Alt. Hard Rock delivers the harder, edgier, rock side of the Alternative music world. You'll hear staples like Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam and Nirvana as well as the the latest from the Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Green Day and more.

Hard Rock brings you the best music from bands like System of a Down, Chevelle, Tool, Korn, Shinedown, Metallica and Disturbed as well as deeper album cuts from your favorite bands to give you the full hard rock experience.

Rock Ballads will take you back to the days of big hair and big love ballads. Raise your lighters in the air, grab the one you love, and find your own “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”. Big Rock Ballads on Slacker Radio features all the best balladeers from the 70’s and 80’s like Journey, Foreigner, and Aerosmith.

Hard rock/heavy metal band Crossfade is based in Columbia, SC, where its members reside. The group came together in the late '90s with the merging of singer/guitarist Ed Sloan with bassist/backup singer Mitch James and drummer Brian Geiger as the power trio the Nothing.

Although formed in September 1996, Saliva didn't hit the mainstream until 2001, when the band's mix of angsty hard rock and hip-hop helped earn a double-platinum certification for its sophomore album, Every Six Seconds.